Posted by Rik Wasmus on 11/30/07 08:04

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:59:50 +0100, eastcoastguyz
<eastcoastguyz@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Nov 30, 1:23 am, taps128 <nstje...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> eastcoastguyzwrote:
>> > I'm very new to RSS. I was given a URL that starts with "feed:". I
>> > want to be able to open this and read in its content into a PHP
>> > program to produce a report. I'm not interested in converting it to
>> > HTML.
>>
>> > Question: Is a URL that starts with feed: output XML?
>>
>> > Question: How do I open a feed: URL in PHP and parse it?
>>
>> > Thanks!
>>
>> > Edward
>>
>> Open it using fopen, file_get_contects or curl, and read it using
>> simpleXML, or XMLReader.
>
> Thanks for your posting.
>
> I looked at the example for simpleXML on the php.net web site. I was
> able to get the first example working. So I'm starting to understand
> how this might work.
>
> I have some questions. That example.php looks to be XML with a PHP
> envelope (for lack of a better term) around it

Just to output with PHP script. This will offcourse not be visible when it
is requested.

> and then it has a call
> to XML with "XML;". Since I'm new to this, that is a little confusing
> as an example. How would that example be if it was reading from a
> rss.xml file? And what about the "XML;" call?

Check the manual for heredoc syntax.
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Rik Wasmus

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